Global foreign accent and voice onset time among Japanese EFL speakers

Language Learning

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 275-302

  Riney, Timothy J ^a   Takagi, Naoyuki ^b  

^a INTERNATIONAL CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NONE

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EID: 0033425296     PISSN: 00238333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/0023-8333.00089     Document Type: Article

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